The opening sequence of Beauty and the Beast, “Belle,” very closely resembles the choreography of the song “Mr. Crane” from the early Disney move The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.

14.

King Candy in Wreck-It Ralph quotes the Joker in Batman. Despite their glasses, the characters in both movies still get beat up.

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15.

In Coco, director Lee Unkrich includes a nod to “redrum” in The Shining by placing an ax in a tree stump next to a “red drum.”

Pixar, Warner Bros

16.

The design of Auto in Wall-E was taken from Hal 9000, a character in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Pixar, MGM

17.

Finding Nemo spoofed the “Here’s Johnny” scene from The Shining with Bruce.

Pixar, Warner Bros

18.

The Duke of Weselton’s dance in Frozen that he claims is “like a chicken with the face of a monkey” is the same dance move that Lindsay Bluth uses to imitate a chicken in Arrested Development.

Disney, Imagine Entertainment

19.

Zootopia spoofs Breaking Bad for the night howler scene, and it even goes so far as to name two of the characters involved (Woolter and Jesse) after Breaking Bad‘s main characters.

Disney, AMC

20.

When all of the toys stand up to Sid in Toy Story, Woody’s head turns in the same fashion as The Exorcist.

Pixar, Warner Bros

21.

In Cars, the sheriff of Radiator Springs asks Lightning McQueen to repave a road as punishment. Paul Newman (who played Doc Hudson in Cars) was also tasked with paving a road when he played the title character in Cool Hand Luke 39 years earlier.

Pixar, Jalem Productions

22.

The “help me” scene in The Fly is spoofed at the beginning of The Emperor’s New Groove.

Disney, Twentieth Century Fox

23.

And Flynn Rider quotes Will Smith’s character in Independence Day when he wields a frying pan for the first time.

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